This page aims to give an overview over the already implemented pretalx features, as well as
upcoming or planned features. If you have any further suggestions, please open an issue – neither
of these lists are complete, and we’re looking forward to what you come up with!

Publish a Call for Papers: This is, at first, the most important part. pretalx allows you to
publish a beautiful (we support full markdown) CfP in different languages and make it public
after inspecting it.

Build a great team: pretalx allows you to invite further members to your crew seamlessly, and
has features a role-based permission system, where you differentiate between superusers, crew,
and reviewers.

Organise the talks: You can offer different submission types, with default lengths, so that
speakers can tell you how much time (or which format, e.g. workshops) they require right at the
start.

Work with multi-language events: pretalx allows you to choose the locales offered at your
conference, and speakers can then choose the language they feel most comfortable in for their
talk. Subsequently, speakers will receive all emails in that language. pretalx supports
English, German and French, but is open to new languages.

Ask custom questions: If you need custom information from your submitters, you can add
questions to your CfP. We support a wide variety of answer types, such as free-text, number input,
and choices. (Answers can be optional, too.) You’ll see the results as manageable
statistics. You can ask questions either per speaker or per submission.

Set a deadline: You can configure a deadline for your CfP and choose to show the countdown
publicly. You can also add deadlines to submission types, to close them before the general deadline,
or keep them available for longer than that.

Accept or reject submissions: After careful consideration, you can accept or reject
submissions. Speakers will then receive a notification (if you choose to), and asked to confirm
their talk.

Reviewing: A reviewing system with both texts and scoring, configurable scales, average
scores, and reviewer teams that can work separately from the general organiser team.

Strong opinions: Permit reviewers to issue override votes to put a
submission to the top or bottom of the ranking, for a fixed amount of times
per event and reviewer.

Communicate: Write emails to your speakers! pretalx comes with an email templating system that
allows you to write multi-lingual email templates with place holders and send them to all or a
subset of your speakers.

Check, then check again: pretalx lets you check and edit any email before it’s actually sent.
Until then, pretalx collects the emails in an out-box, ready for editing, sending, or discarding.

Resend: Sent the email to the wrong address? Want to send the same email to a new speaker?
pretalx allows you to copy any sent email to a draft, edit it, and send it again.

Educate: Speakers can upload files (such as presentations, or papers) along with their talks.